Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT isn’t safe for kids

八个州起诉 OpenAI，称 ChatGPT 对儿童不安全

OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. The lawsuits, filed separately by Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana, allege OpenAI unlawfully put profits over safety when developing ChatGPT.

据路透社早先报道，OpenAI 正面临来自美国八个州的新一轮诉讼，这些诉讼指控该公司伤害儿童，并在 ChatGPT 的安全性问题上误导消费者。爱荷华州、堪萨斯州、内布拉斯加州、西弗吉尼亚州、阿肯色州、亚利桑那州、爱达荷州和蒙大拿州分别提起了诉讼，指控 OpenAI 在开发 ChatGPT 时非法将利润置于安全之上。

The string of complaints claims that OpenAI violated local consumer protection laws by failing to warn customers about the dangers of ChatGPT, citing several lawsuits filed by the family members of teens and adults that allege the AI chatbot played a role in their loved ones’ deaths. They allege that while OpenAI misleadingly presented ChatGPT as a “safe, youth-appropriate tool that puts safety first,” it was actually “dangerous to vulnerable users” — including by “degrading critical thinking skills, encouraging paranoias and delusions, offering dangerous medical advice, and promoting unhealthy behaviors and relationships.”

这一系列投诉声称，OpenAI 未能就 ChatGPT 的危险性向客户发出警告，从而违反了当地的消费者保护法。投诉引用了青少年和成年人家属提起的几起诉讼，这些诉讼称该人工智能聊天机器人在其亲人的死亡中起到了推波助澜的作用。他们指控 OpenAI 虽然误导性地将 ChatGPT 宣传为“安全、适合青少年且将安全放在首位的工具”，但它实际上对“弱势用户具有危险性”，包括“削弱批判性思维能力、助长偏执和妄想、提供危险的医疗建议，以及宣扬不健康的各种行为和关系”。

Additionally, the states accuse OpenAI of collecting data from minors and not doing enough to keep underage users from using the chatbot. The lawsuits also cite recent rogue AI hacking incidents as evidence of OpenAI’s alleged “recklessness.”

此外，这些州还指控 OpenAI 收集未成年人的数据，并且在阻止未成年用户使用该聊天机器人方面做得不够。诉讼还援引了近期发生的流氓人工智能黑客攻击事件，作为 OpenAI 所谓“鲁莽”行为的证据。

“OpenAI has devolved from its original mission as a public-first nonprofit that prioritized safety into a cautionary tale about what can happen when the development of a tool as powerful as AI is driven not by safety, but by a profit‑at‑all‑costs mindset that sidelines essential safeguards,” Arizona’s lawsuit claims.

亚利桑那州的诉讼称：“OpenAI 已经从其最初作为优先考虑安全的公共非营利组织的使命，演变成了一个警示故事，即当像人工智能这样强大的工具的开发不是由安全驱动，而是由将基本保障措施边缘化的不惜一切代价追求利润的心态所驱动时，会发生什么。”

In an emailed statement to The Verge, OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri says the company has “built industry-leading age-specific protections” into ChatGPT: “While no system can be perfect, we’ll continue to work with experts to inform our work and build additional safeguards, such as the parental controls, break reminders and age-appropriate model protections that exist today. We’re committed to working with states on advancing pragmatic AI policies that apply to the entire AI industry - not just one company.”

OpenAI 发言人德鲁·普萨特里（Drew Pusateri）在给《The Verge》的一份电子邮件声明中表示，该公司已在 ChatGPT 中“建立了行业领先的特定年龄保护措施”：“虽然没有任何系统是完美的，但我们将继续与专家合作，为我们的工作提供信息，并建立额外的保障措施，例如目前已有的家长控制、休息提醒和适合年龄的模型保护。我们致力于与各州合作，推进适用于整个 AI 行业（而不仅仅是一家公司）的务实 AI 政策。”

The states are asking the courts to force OpenAI to pay a series of civil penalties and to stop misleading the public about the safety of ChatGPT. Some states are also seeking the deletion of unlawfully collected personal data.

这些州要求法院强制 OpenAI 支付一系列民事罚款，并停止在 ChatGPT 的安全性问题上误导公众。一些州还要求删除非法收集的个人数据。